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6.9
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67
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62
/466/
3.6
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97
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91
/29/
87
/37/

Return to Seoul (2022)
After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.4
/11922/
72
/424/
72
/427/
3.8
/16284/
97
/119/
85
/53/
81
/25/

Woman at War (2018)
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
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Kanopy
79
7.6
/44723/
76
/2477/
73
/783/
3.7
/108823/
96
/190/
88
/265/
81
/30/
cc age 11+

Three Identical Strangers (2018)
New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
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Hoopla
72
7.3
/134312/
77
/9271/
75
/3154/
3.5
/271228/
82
/155/
83
/920/
57
/28/
cc age 13+

Instant Family (2018)
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.
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The Roku Channel
72
7.2
/13247/
71
/307/
66
/160/
3.4
/2674/
78
/129/
76
/439/
64
/32/
cc age 17+

Mother and Child (2009)
The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
67
7.1
/8786/
69
/138/
65
/118/
3.5
/6177/
94
/18/
75
/194/

Penny Serenade (1941)
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
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MGM Plus
64
6.4
/21797/
67
/602/
63
/394/
3.2
/22294/
69
/45/
62
/486/
53
/9/
cc age 11+

Baby Boom (1987)
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in relationship with Steven, a successful investment broker who, along with J.C., agreed children aren't part of the plan. J.C.'s life takes an unexpected turn when a distant relative dies and the will appoints her the caretaker of their baby girl, Elizabeth. The baby's sudden arrival causes Steven to leave, breaking off their relationship. Juggling power lunches and powdered formula, she is soon forced off the fast track by a conniving colleague and a bigoted boss. But she won't stay down for long. She'll prove to the world that a woman can have it all and on her own terms too!
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Criterion Channel
78
62
7.4
/2884/
70
/54/
71
/82/
3.9
/7163/
100
/5/
78
/24/

Naked Childhood (1969)
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
58
6.8
/5297/
66
/135/
64
/110/
3.5
/10346/
73
/11/
54
/39/

The Bigamist (1953)
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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Kanopy
75
57
7.2
/2910/
74
/232/
74
/523/
3.8
/11920/
85
/13/
69
/1/

In Safe Hands (2018)
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
poster
57
6.1
/1876/
63
/20/
57
/34/
3.2
/648/
54
/13/
55
/28/

Immediate Family (1989)
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy will sign away custody. Things don't go quite to plan however..
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Amazon Prime Video
52
6.3
/1722/
65
/49/
56
/29/
3.1
/281/
6
/17/
61
/81/
41
/9/

Hate Crime (2005)
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
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Amazon Prime Video
49
6.0
/10133/
59
/227/
56
/161/
2.6
/4940/
36
/81/
34
/643/
38
/13/

Gigantic (2008)
Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.
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39
6.9
/2502/
67
/39/
66
/34/
3.3
/1344/
33
/9/
71
/23/

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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The Roku Channel
69
38
5.1
/354/
69
/19/
51
/14/
17
/2/

Stolen Child (2012)
Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds that there have been irregularities in the adoption process.
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60
32
6.5
/1460/
61
/35/
55
/55/
3.2
/318/
58
/74/

Baby Love (2008)
They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the risk of losing Philippe. But how do you make a child when you are gay?
poster
54
23
5.8
/1601/
68
/25/
57
/22/
3.0
/565/
26
/218/

The Tunnel of Love (1958)
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.
poster
61
17
6.1
/608/
47
/8/
70
/3/
3.3
/216/
62
/187/

My Blue Heaven (1950)
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
poster
59
16
6.5
/785/
65
/13/
58
/27/
3.4
/352/
40
/3/

Holy Lola (2004)
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
poster
63
15
6.5
/569/
54
/5/
65
/3/
70
/22/

Close to My Heart (1951)
A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
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Amazon Prime Video
58
14
5.2
/793/
61
/32/
63
/17/
2.9
/227/

Home Invasion (2012)
After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about trying to destroy her life.
poster
46
13
4.8
/827/
49
/27/
43
/18/
3.0
/268/
30
/18/

Daddy's Girl (1996)
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
13
5.6
/499/
60
/22/
66
/21/
25
/3/

Baby Sellers (2013)
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
poster
64
13
6.9
/815/
61
/12/
64
/15/
3.4
/344/
60
/3/

Three Secrets (1950)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
poster
Kanopy
49
13
5.5
/580/
53
/37/
59
/27/
3.0
/210/
18
/2/

The Dream Children (2015)
Alex wants to become a father. Steven, his partner, has to confront his insecurities and fear of change after a lifetime smothered by superficiality. Unable to adopt legally, but still eager to become parents, they decide to turn to the black market, adopting a child from a desperate young woman, who's return with a dangerous new boyfriend, threatens to destroy everything they love.
poster
MGM Plus
50
12
5.4
/421/
54
/12/
50
/14/
3.1
/391/
33
/17/

Get Christie Love! (1974)
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
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Pluto TV
61
12
5.2
/488/
75
/14/
74
/16/
44
/3/

My Baby Is Missing (2007)
Jenna Davis, a single working mother, wakes up at home to discover she's delivered a stillborn baby girl. Is the child a victim of a cunning prenatal nurse who no one remembers seeing or is she the victim of her mother's own fractured psyche?
poster
60
11
6.6
/430/
54
/5/
57
/14/
64
/5/

Northeast (2005)
An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life changes both of their lives forever.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
10
6.0
/588/
55
/19/
43
/7/
52
/11/

Love Notes (2007)
Follows the relationship between a classical music critic and a country music star after a one night stand, which results in an unplanned pregnancy.
poster
?
10
/2/

Finding Family: Gay Adoption in the U.S. (2007)
A short film about the patchwork laws concerning LGBTQ adoption, and the ways in which the states were anything but united in what makes a family. Presenting a comprehensive overview of gay adoption rights state-by-state, Finding Family features social workers from across the country, a researcher with the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, gay adoptive parents, and the grown son of two lesbians.
poster
?
5.9
/71/
10
/1/
33
/3/

Rakkauselokuva (1984)
The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
?
6.1
/316/
58
/6/
75
/4/
69
/2/

A Father for Brittany (1998)
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.
poster
27
?
4.7
/587/
16
/3/
20
/1/

Lucinda's Spell (1998)
Something Magical Is In The Air...... Jason the last descendant of Merlin, must father a child on the eve of Beltane. A coven of the world's most powerful witches have gathered in New Orleans for a spell contest to determine who will bear his magical child. But a bizarre battle between good and evil ensues when a young prostitute, Lucinda challenges the coven with her own special brand of magic. To complicate matters, Madison, a desperate New Orleans voodoo priest, hungry to use Jason's alchemical blood to turn lead into gold, stikes a treacherous alliance with the seductive witch Beatrice whose only desire is to use Merlin's offspring to control the most powerful magic on earth... Revel in magic and mayhem as Lucinda struggles to overcome diabolical odds in the most outlandish spell contest you've ever seen!
poster
53
?
6.1
/249/
60
/10/
35
/4/
59
/4/

The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Road movie about two brothers who drive to Texas to find out the truth behind their parents.
poster
54
?
4.5
/126/
66
/3/
52
/8/

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête (1989)
Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...
poster
?
7.0
/32/
35
/2/
10
/2/

The Commitment (2012)
An interracial gay couple adopting a newborn baby meets the pregnant Asian birthmother and receives a surprise that threatens their relationship.
poster
57
?
5.8
/237/
55
/10/
60
/16/

Low Profile (2012)
There's nothing to keep Yvan in Paris any longer. His wife has left him to live in Thailand. His teenage daughters have chosen to live with his sister Ariane, who is as anxious as she is admirable. Yvan is ready to leave... when beautiful Emmanuelle enters his life. She makes babies as easily as she falls in love, and she's accompanied by Léo, the little boy who Yvan's wife had with another man. Yvan is going to have to change his plans.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.9
/31/
60
/1/

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010)
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem ("First Person Plural," POV 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her "double," the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. A co-production of ITVS in association with the Center for Asian American Media and American Documentary/POV.
poster
Hoopla
66
?
6.3
/146/
72
/8/
37
/6/
88
/16/
73
/7/

Off and Running (2009)
With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean-Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of her life and make sense of her identity, the results are inspiring. OFF AND RUNNING follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths people must go to become themselves.


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